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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Anthem Press
ISBN-10
1785274066
ISBN-13
9781785274060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038755578
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
210 Pages
Publication Name
Offering Theory : Reading in Sociography
Language
English
Subject
Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Critical Theory, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Education
Series
Anthem Symploke Studies in Theory Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-936151
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Thanks to countless conversations that he animates vividly, John Mowitt demonstrates with rigor and intelligence that Theory is here and now, not as a series of concepts to be applied, but as a way of reading life and texts, thus offering an indispensable propaedeutic for our critical humanities." --Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "A splendid set of studies from a consummate critical theorist. Leading us into theoretical discourse with disparate threads, John Mowitt offers here a singular textual labyrinth, woven in the exemplary spirit of sustained scholarly engagement and enjoyment." --Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University, USA, "Separating theory and practice has done higher education in the human sciences considerable harm. John Mowitt is among the very few who have been working on a productive and persistent undoing of this polarization. We now have a chance to learn from this sustained work in Offering Theory." --Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Author of An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
Dewey Decimal
801.95
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments; The Pretext; Introduction: Theory in Limbo; 1. Queer Resistance: Foucault and the Unnamable; 2. Stumbling on Analysis: Psychoanalysis and Everyday Life; 3. Strangers in Analysis: Nationalism and the Talking Cure; 4. "Jamming"; 5. WWJD?; 6. What Said Said; 7. Apart from Theory; 8. Conclusion: Theory Is Out There; References; Index.
Synopsis
A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. Arguing against those who propose to avoid Theory in the name of its putative obsolescence, this text sets out to challenge two aspects of this avoidance. On the one hand, Theory has been set aside in the name of identity politics, that is, the proposition that its intellectual pertinence has been overshadowed by a sense of political urgency construed as at odds with Theory. Theory itself has assumed an identity, a profile. On the other hand, implicit within the avoidance of Theory is a concept of "context" that calls for reflection. Resisting the tendency to treat context as either negligible or obvious, this text sets out to trace, in the when and where of Theory, the rudiments of a "sociographic" (think "historiographic") account of context. In relation to it, the reading that is Theory can be usefully situated as part of a politics of higher education in the era of the global crisis of the university., A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today., A reading of Theory when and where it arises in the event of reading and how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. 'A splendid set of studies from a consummate critical theorist. Leading us into theoretical discourse with disparate threads, John Mowitt offers here a singular textual labyrinth, woven in the exemplary spirit of sustained scholarly engagement and enjoyment.' -- Rey Chow, Duke University 'Thanks to countless conversations that he animates vividly, John Mowitt demonstrates with rigour and intelligence that Theory is here and now, not as a series of concepts to be applied, but as a way of reading life and texts, thus offering an indispensable propaedeutic for our critical humanities.' -- Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania and Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 'Separating theory and practice has done higher education in the human sciences considerable harm. John Mowitt is among the very few who have been working on a productive and persistent undoing of this polarization. We now have a chance to learn from this sustained work in Offering Theory.' -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Author of An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
LC Classification Number
PN98
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